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STRUGGLING
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Challenges Facing the
International Economy
ISBN-13 978-981-4374-31-6
ISBN-10 981-4374-31-8
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Challenges Facing the
International Economy
World Scientific
Struggling
With Success:
Challenges Facing
the International
Economy
By Anne O. Krueger
World Scientific
Publishing Co., 2011
Krueger is a professor
of International
Economics.
That Used to Be Us:
How America Fell
Behind in the World
It Invented and How
We Can Come Back
By Michael
Mandelbaum and
Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
2011
Mandelbaum is the
Christian A. Herter
Professor of American
Foreign Policy and
director of the American
Foreign Policy Program.
in Addis Ababa in 1995 to the double US
embassy bombing in the summer of 1998,
as well as examining the preparation and
execution of the naval terrorism attacks.
In addition, Pecastaing discusses how the
state of lawlessness in Somalia has led to
the rise of piracy in the western Indian
Ocean, offering a brief narration of the
most spectacular hijackings.
For foreign powers, Pecastaing concludes,
the Horn of Africa is a conundrum. The
strategic risk is mitigated by the logistic
limitations of the local outfits and their
lack of capacity to project power outside
the region. The costs of trying to impose
law and order most certainly outweigh
the benefits, as least in financial terms.
As long as local violence does not make
too much of a splash in the global media,
foreign governments will continue to look
the other way. But with Yemen on the
brink of civil war following the events of
the Arab Spring, the region is calling for
foreign intervention.
Cover Image:
DVIDS photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason S. Fariss
Cover Design:
Jennifer Navarrette
Straits of Trouble
The Bab el-Mandeb, which separates the Red Sea from the
Indian Ocean and joins Africa and Asia, has provided a key
Eurasian trade route for at least the past 2,500 years. But the
lands and coasts across the Bab el-Mandeb have for centuries
had a forbidding reputation as lands of piracy and privation.
In Jihad in the Arabian Sea, Camille Pecastaing examines
the twenty-first-century challenges facing this troubled and
treacherous region.
Pecastaing looks at the past and present of the key players in
the area, including Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Djibouti, the Sudan,
and Ethiopia; he discusses the tumultuous events of the Arab
Spring of 2011 and reviews the terrorist activities of Al Qaeda,
the state of lawlessness that has led to the rise of piracy in the
western Indian Ocean, the rise of the radical Shabab group, and
the spread of extremist forms of Islam in the south. The author
displays a real feel for the land, seamlessly blending history and
current headlines to paint a picture of a region that, for most of
the past two thousand years, has never quite evolved into the
era of the modern state.
About the Author
Camille Pecastaing is a senior associate professor of Middle East
studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of expertise
include social history, behavioral sociology, and comparative
politics.
Hoover Institution Press
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
www.hooverpress.org
Hoover
Institution
Press
Political Science/Political Freedom & Security/
International Security
La Rivoluzione
Promessa: Lettura
della Costituzione
Italiana (The
Promised Revolution:
A Reading of the
Italian Constitution)
By Gianfranco Pasquino
B’66, ’67
Bruno Mondadori, 2011
Pasquino is a senior
adjunct professor of
European Studies at the
Bologna Center.
Pecastaing
Jihad in the Arabian Sea
Hoover
Institution
Press
Jihad in the
Arabian Sea
Camille Pecastaing
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Economics and the
Challenge of Global
Warming
By Charles Pearson ’66
Cambridge University
Press, 2011
Pearson is a professor
emeritus of International
Economics and a
visiting lecturer at the
Bologna Center.
Jihad in the
Arabian Sea
By Camille Pecastaing
’97, Ph.D. ’02
Hoover Institution
Press, 2011
Pecastaing is acting
director of the Middle
East Studies Program
and senior associate
professor of Middle East
Studies.
the age of equality
the twentieth century
in economic perspective
richard pomfret
The Age of Equality:
The Twentieth
Century in Economic
Perspective
By Richard Pomfret N’89
Harvard University
Press, 2011
Pomfret is an adjunct
professor of International
Economics at the
Bologna Center.
A
t the dawn of the twenty-first
century, the challenges for the countries
on the shores of the Arabian Sea are
many: civil war, piracy, radical Islamism,
transnational terrorism, and a real risk of
environmental and economic failure on
both sides of the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
Yet its strategic importance as a conduit
for maritime trade between Asia and
the Mediterranean world is as great as
it was when Egyptian pharaohs built a
canal between the Nile and the Red Sea.
Today, as then, the lands around the Bab
el-Mandeb are as difficult to pacify as the
Red Sea was treacherous to navigate.
In Jihad in the Arabian Sea, Camille
Pecastaing leads us through the history
and geography of the region, illuminating
the tests it faces today. He describes
the collapse of the Somali state under
Siad Barre in the 1980s and details the
struggle between the warlord Aideed and
the UN and US forces in the early 1990s.
He outlines the history of modern Yemen, Russia and the
from the civil war of the 1960s to the
reunification process. And he reviews the
activity of Al Qaeda in the region, from Communist Past
the assassination attempt against Mubarak
Continued on back flap
David Satter
It Was
a Long Time Ago,
and It Never
Happened Anyway
It Was a Long Time
Ago, and It Never
Happened Anyway:
Russia and the
Communist Past
By David Satter
Yale University Press, 2011
Satter is a SAIS Foreign
Policy Institute fellow.
Ethnic Identity and
Minority Protection:
Designation,
Discrimination and
Brutalization
By Thomas Simon
Rowman & Littlefield/
Lexington Books,
forthcoming 2012
Simon is a visiting professor
of International
Law at the Hopkins-
Nanjing Center.
Ferghana Valley: The
Heart of Central Asia
Edited by S. Frederick
Starr
M. E. Sharpe, 2011
Starr is chairman of the
Central Asia-Caucasus
Institute at SAIS and a
research professor.
The Emergency State:
America’s Pursuit of
Absolute Security at
All Costs
By David C. Unger
Penguin Press, forthcoming
2012
Unger is an adjunct
professor of American
Foreign Policy at the
Bologna Center.
Libro Bianco sul
Terzo Settore (White
Paper on the Nonprofit
Sector)
Edited by Stefano
Zamagni
Il Mulino, 2011
Zamagni is vice director
of the Bologna Center
and a senior adjunct
professor of International
Economics.
—Compiled by
Sarah Lerner
2011–2012 61